Michael Evans

Left Back - Middlesbrough U18
15 Feb 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Michael Evans

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The Middlesbrough Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets

An offer of $16.4M for Germán Berterame

Middlesbrough have gone to Inter Miami CF with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Middlesbrough baulk at the price for Julio Soler

Bournemouth wanted more than $7.3M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market

Middlesbrough say no — this time

The offer from Hull City for George Edmundson was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

A falling-out at Middlesbrough

Callum Brittain and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Max Arfsten

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Middlesbrough

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

The terraces

One of their own: Will Lankshear

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Market

Middlesbrough promote Michael Evans from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michael Evans has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Middlesbrough promote Alexander Reid from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alexander Reid has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief